For what it’s worth, mac apps have had disk access permission prompts (along with prompts for several other permissions) for a while now. Its permission system

For what it’s worth, mac apps have had disk access permission prompts (along with prompts for several other permissions) for a while now. Its permission system isn’t perfect, but it’s a far cry from unpermissioned access. Windows and Linux do have a way to go in this regard, though. I’ve seen efforts from the Elementary OS team to include some form of permissions in their distro but I’ve not seen it elsewhere in desktop OSes aside from macOS.